HIT Consultant June 30, 2025
Major cybersecurity breaches continue to plague the US healthcare industry, and on December 27, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), via its Office for Civil Rights (OCR), issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to amend the HIPAA Security Rule, titled “The HIPAA Security Rule to Strengthen the Cybersecurity of Electronic Protected Health Information”. Comments were requested and over 4000 were received before the comment period ended on March 7 2025. Let’s dissect the comments received, discusses what could come next, and offers recommendations on how to prepare for the regulatory road ahead.
What’s Driving the Update
The updated HIPAA Security Rule presents a proposed upgrade of the Security Standards for the Protection of Electronic...
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